| The Pyjama Girl Case [1977] (REGION 1) (NTSC) [DVD] [US Import] | ![The Pyjama Girl Case [1977] (REGION 1) (NTSC) [DVD] [US Import]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51N8RVM6NYL._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Flavio Mogherini
Actors: Ray Milland, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Michele Placido, Mel Ferrer, Howard Ross
Studio: Blue Underground
Category: DVD
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 25,257
Format: Colour, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 103 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 827058106993
UPC: 827058106993
EAN: 0827058106993
ASIN: B000E41MTK
Theatrical Release Date: 1977
Release Date: March 28, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Not A Black-Gloved Hand In Sight... August 9, 2009
Quackser (Ireland)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Quite an atypical "Giallo", this, and none the worse for marking out its own particular territory. This is based on a true and still mysterious murder case in Australia in the 1930s; director and writer Flavio Mogherini's initial point of interest seeming to be that one of the suspects was an Italian immigrant. He sets his version of the story in the present(1977) but riffs on many of the macabre points of interest attached to the original case (which I won't spoil for you, but are outlined in a good 30 minute extra feature attached to Blue Underground's DVD; suffice it to say that the crazier any particular scene in the movie is, the more likely it is to be "true"!).
Ray Milland (a few years after "The Thing With Two Heads" and a few years before "The Attic"; in other words, midway through his years of asking his agent "Where the hell am I this week, why couldn't you get me a guest role on Columbo?") plays a semi-retired detective who gets the plot going. His offhand performance actually works really well here, grounding the bizarre nature of the puzzle he tries to solve in something quite real. But the revelation of the piece is Dalila Di Lazzaro, playing both the film's object of mystery and the object of desire for seemingly every male she encounters therein. The film plays games with linear narrative which might confuse at first (well, it's SUPPOSED to be a mystery)but the cumulative effect is quite stunning, placing the girl in the yellow pyjamas at the centre of a puzzle that yields up its secrets even as her fate closes in around her. There are moments where she seems to acknowledge- even to foresee- this fate, and it's here that Dalila Di Lazzaro's performance turns this five-star movie into a six.
wicked giallo August 25, 2006
J. A. R. King (ENGLAND)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This Giallo is great!
Ray milland is a retired cop who is bored and starts nosing around the case of a girls mutilated body found on a beach, the only clue to her identity being her yellow (i.e giallo) pyjamas.
The police have no idea who she is so take the unsual action of putting her body on display to try and identify her and hopefully bring the killer out of hiding...
This movie represents a change in the usual giallo stomping ground as it only features one murder so gorehounds may come away dissapointed, and its set and shot in Australia (!), but all the suspense you could wish for is still there.
Ray Milland is really great as the cop who is soooo close to catching the killer and I'm not sure who played the main girl but she is awsome and very beautiful, she looks somewhat like a seventies Uma Thurman!
Blue underground have done a great job restoring this baby, the picture looks awesome, and don't forget to check out the great trailer.
As for the theme song... all i can say is WOW, someone needs to reissue this now!!!
Just to Add November 21, 2007
R. Chrichlow (England)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have not seen the DVD but if from what I have read from the other reviewer is correct, to add - this is based on a real story which did happen in Australia. The body was displayed and people queued to see if they recognised her. Might add to the story.
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